Speaking to workers on location in St. Louis with tens of thousands more tuning in via a webcast, Ortberg touched on topics ranging from employee bonuses to the role that Elon Musk and DOGE are playing on the tardy Air Force One jets that Boeing is preparing for the Pentagon.
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg is inviting employees to help expose deep-seated problems — even if the response is “brutal” to the plane-maker’s leaders.
“I want to hear what the employees have to say,” Ortberg said during his second company-wide address to Boeing workers on Wednesday. “And what we’ll do is we’re going to put an action plan on those things, and I think they’re going to be brutal to leadership, quite frankly.”
